Description of Oregon Trail II Windows

If you haven't played Oregon Trail II or want to try this educational video game, download it now for free! Published in 1995 by SoftKey Multimedia Inc., Oregon Trail II is still a popular managerial title amongst retrogamers, with a whopping 4.3/5 rating.

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Managed to start playing but it just freezes up when trying to do anything at a river, you select your option then it just grays out and stays that way till you open the journal or another menu then you just repeat the process. I guess it's a problem with the animations?

I got the game to work by decompressing the .iso file in 7-zip. Then I altered the oregonII.ini file to edit the path where the data folder was. Then I just double-clicked on the otii32.exe file after setting the compatibility mode to win95 and the screen size to 640 x 480.

Only thing I am having problems with is getting the game to save. I click on the save button and it won't save the file. Anyone know how to fix this?

-Create new folder in C:\ ( eg: c:\games\Oregon Trail 2)
-Mount ISO
-Explore
-Copy DATA folder to your new folder
-Copy other files on the CD's base folder: sampler, install/uninstall, setup.txt etc, all of them
Inside the DATA folder is a config file called OREGONII.txt, open this with notepad
-beneath where it says cdrom is where you will direct the game to find the DATA folder

[cdrom]
rsrcpath=C:\Games\Oregon Trail 2\Data
intromovieid=100

-Save and unmount the ISO
-Open the DATA folder and right click OTII32.exe, create a shortcut and place it on your desktop
- You may have to change compatibility settings, right click the shortcut you made, go into properties----compatibility-----WIN95
-The game will start in full screen and appear black, just press alt+tab to return to windows, open it up again and it will greet you with the menu

Game works fine, but halfway through the trail on every game the wagon simply stops. "No progress," it says. People continue to get sick, I keep getting notified of fog, etc., but the wagon will not move. 5th edition is a corrupted ISO, so can't play that. 1.2 won't load installer, so can't play that. Not even going to try 3rd edition since people seem to be having problems with it. So going to try the 25th anniversary edition.

The screen freezes whenever I go to another screen. I can't go into the items screen without having to either turn or go hunting. The Dalles has become impossible. I lost all my stuff and turning just makes me go back on the river. loading a save freezes it on the menu screen. even hunting after trading freezes it on the hunting screen. Help

I had trouble on windows 10 with all the suggested methods here. What worked for me was the fact I downloaded a program called Power2Go when I bought a CD drive for my laptop a couple months back. This program allowed me to right click the ISO file that extracted from the oregontrailii folder and mount it as a virtual drive. It asked me what I wanted to label the drive as (I picked D:\) and then I went to the virtual D:\otii drive it created for me and then then I went to WIN32 and open application file Setup32 and it installed it for me. To open the game I opened back up the d:\otii and went to data and opened the OTII32 application file. Mine went to black screen then, but I hit the windows button and it minimized it to a playable window. This may not be new info to some but I hope this helps anyone as confused as I was at first.

Don't have the disc? No problem: get a program like daemontools that can mount .ISO files to a virtual CD drive, follow the tutorial vid instructions, but in the .ini file copy and paste the path for the virtual drive instead.

Hey y'all, I actually liked Despicable Me. I liked those little yellow dudes, they were a'ight. And my man Gru was tight, trying to raise a family and all. I don't really remember anything that happened, but it was bitchin.

So I couldn't figure out how to get this to run at first, but I poked around a bit and finally clicked not on the folder thing, but the Oregon Trail II file. Go to Win16 or Win32 ( I don't actually know the difference, except maybe the graphics?? )) and double click on Setup.16 or Setup.32

It should install the game, although I have noticed in my first attempt to play the game that it's a bit buggy, particularly when you go to the screen to check your supplies. It won't toggle back to the travel screen very easily.

For people needing to know how to get it to run on Windows 10 and in full screen mode, here goes:
1) download from here Oregon trail
2)Download DosBox, just Google it, it's free and safe and takes up hardly no space
3) left click on the (.exe) of Oregon trail, drag and drop it onto your dosbox shortcut on your desktop, game loads
4) scroll mouse onto the small dosbox window
5) press Ctrl+F10 which locks the mouse on the window
6) press Alt+Enter, Bingo full screen

Pointers: before loading game check compatibility mode of both dos box and Oregon trail by right clicking on each shortcut or .exe, go to properties, go to compatibility mode, check "run this program in compatibility mode for" choose windows 8 in the drop down menu (because windows 10 isn't an option) and check run in 640 x 480 screen resolution. Viola! If you don't do this is will still go full screen but the picture may still be small, so do that first to make it take up the whole screen in big size!
Running Windows 10 (32 bit) works for me, hope this helps!

Well, thank you for that wonderful explanation, Sal. Unfortunately, I didn't understand a word of it. Oh, Wait! I got the part that said "Windows 10".
Would love to play the game, but alas, I am not a techie. Guess I'll just have to live with my memories of all those times I died.....

In order for this to work; your best bet is to do a dual bootable OS setup with windows 98 as your secondary OS or use a virtual machine program. There are ways to get this to work on Windows 10; however, from personal experience with emulators, work arounds in other games; the games don't always play/work as intended. For example: I've emulated some old RPG games where no matter what you did; your MC would start off with 1HP; other games would have a stutter; AI would act weird; even encountered one where the turn based game gave the enemy ai 5 turns in a row... So best option is to install the original OS as a 2nd OS or virtual machine.

You know , it would be nice if you people who made this game , could make it compatible with windows 10 , the 90s went out a long time ago you know would be nice if you rolled with the modern drivers .

I got to say, looking at all the screenshots, I'm actually quite saddened. Mecc/The Learning Company simply rehashed the game ever since 2? Oregon Trail 5 was the one I had while in the 3rd-5th grade during lunch break, and this is literally the EXACT SAME GAME. I honestly see NOTHING different here. Did they seriously just simply rebrand it after 2 with 3,4 & 5? I love Oregon Trail Deluxe, always have, same with the rehash of deluxe, 1.2, and of course thoroughly enjoy OT5. But this rehashing honestly is sad & kind aggravating.

KZY the ISO file either needs to be mounted with Daemon Tools, Burnt to a Disc, or you could simply open it using Winrar. (With Winrar, just right click the ISO file and open or extract with Winrar) hope this helps :)

I'm not sure if I am allow to post this, but this tutorial will help anyone having issues opening without CD. It's fairly simple. Hope that helps friends :). This is my first time here. I had to first google and make sure this was safe. Thankful to see others have used it as well.

I remember I played this is second grade whenever I finished my work and had free time. The "Bad thing happened" noise used to terrify me, and watching a video of it, it still makes me cringe. Replaying it is going to be fun...

I like this version better than the first. For one thing, it is more realistic (In the first one, I got robbed almost every night. Once the thief took 6 oxen! How is that even possible?) and it has better graphics, and you can walk around and the controls are better. Plus, it's historically accurate (duh).

I can't wait to play it, I am downloading it now. My brother remembers playing it but I don't remember it at all. I still think it will be awesome though, I am going to go see if it is done downloading now!

Hi Im trying to play this on BasiliskII and i've expanded the file with stuffit expander and copied the Oregon Trail II.toast file to my MacOS753 hard drive on basilisk but when i try to open it i get this message-
"The Document "Oregon Trail II.Toast" could not be opened, because the application program that created it could not be found.
could not find a translation extension with appropriate translators."
any suggestions on how to resolve this?

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